Extrasolar Planets and the Search for Life

When I was back at University College London,
I taught a diploma course to mature students exploring life on Earth
and throughout the cosmos. The lecture notes for the course were made
available on-line at the time. Even though the notes are now now a bit
out of date (e.g., Huygens touched down on Titan a while back), there
seems to be continued interest in them, which is why I'm making them
available here.

A note on copyright: many of the images on these pages were lifted
from the web without proper attention to copyright. Unfortunately,
I've long forgotten where the images came from, and to whom they
belong. If you are an owner of an image, then please feel free to
contact me to discuss proper attribution (or removal). If you
want to use one of these images yourself, then I'm afraid I'm not the
right person to ask.